Voicemails for Isabelle Review: The Best Rom-Com of the Past Decade, and Barely a Rom-Com
Zoey Deutch's best performance yet anchors a story that's really about two sisters. (Now Streaming on Netflix)
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Film
Reviews and notes on what I’ve been watching.
15 posts
One Battle After Another Review: Confident, Kinetic, and Surprisingly Funny
PTA's Best Picture winner is a wild, ensemble-driven action epic. (Now Streaming on HBO Max)
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Caught Stealing Review: The Cat, The Chaos, and Austin Butler's Best Work
Darren Aronofsky goes full 90s crime caper, and it actually works. (Now Streaming on Netflix)
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The Bride! Review: Too Many Things, All of Them Interesting
Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale go full monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's ambitious, overstuffed gothic romance. (Now streaming)
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Wuthering Heights (2026) Review: Jacob Elordi Drives It Home
A silly first act gives way to something genuinely tragic.
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Project Hail Mary Review: So Good a Rock Will Make You Cry
Ryan Gosling and a rock alien deliver one of the best sci-fi films in years. (Watch it in Theaters this week!)
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The Smashing Machine Review: Go In Expecting Nothing
Benny Safdie's MMA biopic is better than its reputation — if you let it breathe. (Now Streaming on HBO Max)
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Hamnet Review: A Simple Story That Will Break Your Heart
Chloé Zhao's stunning comeback after Eternals is everything that film wasn't.
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Sinners Review: Ryan Coogler Makes the Case for Big, Original Cinema
Why the most Oscar-nominated film of 2026 matters beyond its box office numbers — and what it says about Hollywood (Now streaming on HBO Max)
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Materialists Review: A Love Story About Choosing Wrong
Why the casting doesn't quite work — and why Celine Song's new rom-com falls short of Past Lives (Now streaming on Netflix)
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Train Dreams Review: A Quiet, Beautiful Meditation on Life and Time
Joel Edgerton's breakthrough performance in one of Netflix's most underseen films of 2025 (Now Streaming on Netflix)
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Frankenstein (2025) Review: Guillermo del Toro's Magnum Opus
The purest expression of del Toro's lifelong question — who is the real monster? (Now Streaming on Netflix)
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Eden (2024) Review: A Paradise Lost to Timing and Marketing
Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, and Jude Law in Ron Howard's underseen thriller based on a true story (Now Streaming on Amazon Prime)
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People We Meet on Vacation Review: Are There Still Original Rom-Coms?
A charming but imperfect Netflix rom-com that earns its ending — compared to When Harry Met Sally, Past Lives, and Anyone But You (Now streaming on Netflix)
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My Top 10 Films of 2025 — Horror, Dread, and the Monsters We've Become
Weapons, Sinners, Frankenstein, 28 Years Later, and the best films of a year defined by dread
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